An oil pipeline worker explained how Kamala Harris would affect his livelihood if elected president, saying it would force him to withdraw money from his 401(k) early to pay bills.
“She’s a left-wing liberal woman from San Francisco with the highest taxes. And why would anyone with any common sense and who is a blue-collar worker even want to look at this woman?” said Bugsy Allen, a pipeline worker from Texas. Fox America Newsroom.
“I can tell you right now, when that lady’s lips move, she is lying,” he added.
Allen’s outburst came as the vice president changed her position on fracking, the drilling process used to extract natural gas and oil from the ground.
Harris, who is expected to become the Democratic nominee, has said she will not seek to ban fracking if elected, a change from the 2020 election campaign, when she said in a CNN Climate Town Hall that “there is no doubt that I am in favor of banning fracking.”
She has reportedly He backed away from that stance and adopted Joe Biden’s position on the issue after becoming his running mate in 2020.
“She’s a left-wing liberal woman from San Francisco with the highest taxes. And why would anyone with any common sense and who’s a blue-collar worker even want to look at this woman?” said Bugsy Allen, a pipeline worker from Texas.
“These people are not going to continue fracking because they are promoting electric cars and their green ideology. And that is not going to work. It will never work,” Allen said.
‘Oil and gas will be the engine of the United States of America.’
Allen said he and his fellow pipeline workers are “thinking about taking money out of our 401(k) plans just to try to live.”
“People, I can tell you, are suffering,” he continued. “And they’re seeing prices go up. And it’s simply because they’ve promoted this ideology about all kinds of electric cars and green energy. It’s not going to work.”
Harris’ campaign commented on fracking after Republican candidate Donald Trump criticized the Californian for her position during a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Kamala Harris has said she will not try to ban fracking if elected, marking a shift from the 2020 election campaign
His team told him The hillTrump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to divert attention from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class.
“The Biden-Harris administration passed the largest climate change legislation in history, and under their leadership, the United States now has the largest domestic energy production in history,” a Harris spokesperson said. “This administration created 300,000 energy jobs, while Trump lost nearly a million, and his Project 2025 would undo the enormous progress we’ve made over the past four years.”
The issue is key in many states where fracking is practiced intensively, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Dakota and Texas.
Harris’s change of stance comes as she is considering Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Shapiro has sought a middle ground in the debate.
Harris’s change of stance comes as she is considering Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Shapiro has sought a middle ground in the debate.
“Governor Shapiro is a governor who cares about all things energy and is taking steps to invest in affordable and reliable renewable energy while continuing to support key energy resources that have helped Pennsylvania become the leader it is today,” a spokesperson for Shapiro said. E&E News from Politico.
Harris is expected to announce her running mate Tuesday at a rally in Philadelphia.